Human Growth Hormone

News about Human Growth Hormone, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Oct. 5, 2014

National Football League will begin testing for human growth hormone, nearly three weeks after the league and its players agreed to a revised drug policy. MORE

Sep. 18, 2014

NFL Roundup; NFL and players' union announce that have reached agreement on new drug-testing protocol; most significant change is that players will be tested for human growth hormone for the first time; other football news noted. MORE

Aug. 23, 2013

NFL Roundup; NFL and players union continue trading barbs about league’s drug-testing regimen and implementation of preliminary test for human growth hormone, with less than two weeks before rosters must be cut; other football news noted. MORE

Jul. 23, 2013

NFL Roundup; blood samples will be taken from all NFL players in training camp this summer to help create a benchmark for testing them for human growth hormone; other football news noted. MORE

Mar. 27, 2013

NFL negotiations to establish human growth hormone testing program for players could become more complicated as Court of Arbitration for Sport overturns International Skiing Federation’s three-year suspension of Olympic cross-country skier Andrus Veerpalu, questioning reliability of such tests. MORE

Feb. 22, 2013

Adolpho Birch, NFL’s senior vice president for law and labor policy, says players' union is stalling on human growth hormone testing because it is unhappy with other aspects of 18-month-old collective bargaining agreement; other NFL news noted. MORE

Jan. 11, 2013

Major League Baseball and its players' union agree to in-season blood testing for human growth hormone and new test for testosterone. MORE

Dec. 13, 2012

Bipartisan group of lawmakers vents its frustration at the NFL players' union for not yet agreeing to put into effect a test for human growth hormone nearly two seasons after promising to do so. MORE

Apr. 21, 2012

NFL agrees to perform a population study to determine if the level of human growth hormone that triggers a positive test should be higher for its players; appropriate threshold has been an issue in discussions about finishing an HGH testing plan for players; the union and the league agree to begin testing as part of the new collective bargaining agreement MORE

Apr. 19, 2012

MLB Roundup; defense in Roger Clemens perjury trial are seeking to limit the testimony of Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte; as one of the government’s key witnesses, Pettitte is expected to tell jurors that Clemens told him in 1999 that he had used human growth hormone. MORE

Jan. 29, 2012

NFL and the players union--deadlocked during the regular season over the implementation of blood testing for human growth hormone--have made progress in discussions, creating the possibility that testing of players will begin during the off-season; when it is finished, the agreement will end one of the last significant sources of discord between the players and the league stemming from the labor negotiations that ended the lockout. MORE

Dec. 8, 2011

NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement opens the door to blood testing for human growth hormone, provided that the league and its union can agree on the reliability of the test. MORE

Nov. 23, 2011

Major League Baseball will cautiously begin blood-testing players for human growth hormone before and after the baseball season, putting off until 2013 the question of whether to institute in-season testing; the on-again, off-again schedule for testing underscores how daunting it is for the players union to agree to blood testing for the first time, particularly when other professional sports leagues in North America do not do such tests. MORE

Nov. 23, 2011

Major League Baseball and its players union unveil five-year collective bargaining agreement that will introduce significant changes in drug testing, the playoff format, instant replay and the manner in which amateur players are signed. MORE

Nov. 20, 2011

Major League Baseball’s owners and players are reportedly close to new labor agreement that will include blood testing for human growth hormone; if deal is carried out, testing will move baseball ahead of other professional sports in confronting drug that has long evaded detection. MORE

Nov. 3, 2011

Congress advises Major League Baseball to test for human growth hormone and ban chewing tobacco by players in uniform and in public view. MORE

Oct. 29, 2011

NFL Roundup; letter sent to the NFL and players' union by two members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform accuses the players' union of stalling on human growth hormone testing; other NFL news noted. MORE

Oct. 26, 2011

House Committee on Energy and Commerce calls for a hearing as soon as possible on the delay in beginning testing for human growth hormone in the NFL, but the players' union insists it needs more information about the threshold for positive tests; other NFL news noted. MORE

Oct. 15, 2011

NFL players' union and United States Anti-Doping Agency fail to produce a timetable for blood-testing program for human growth hormone, despite increased pressure from members of Congress; players' union appears steadfast in its position that it need more scientific information before it will consent to such a program. MORE

Oct. 14, 2011

NFL Roundup; representatives for NFL, including Commissioner Roger Goodell, and players union will meet with members of Congress to discuss holdup in starting a blood-testing program for human growth hormone; other NFL news noted. MORE

Sep. 30, 2011

NFL Roundup; Congressional committee that investigated steroid use in Major League Baseball offers to broker meeting between leaders of National Football League, its players' union and United States Anti-Doping Agency on stalled program to test players for human growth hormone; other NFL news noted. MORE

Sep. 29, 2011

NFL players' union refuses to sign off on agreement with league to test players for human growth hormone, because World Anti-Doping Agency will not give union scientific information with which to make independent evaluation of test validity. MORE

Sep. 3, 2011

NFL informs teams that blood testing for human growth hormone, which was conditionally part of new collective bargaining agreement, will not begin with start of regular season; says players union has concerns about validity of tests used by World Anti-Doping Agency. MORE

Aug. 31, 2011

NFL Roundup; talks toward establishing testing program for human growth hormone are at standstill as NFL players union blames World Anti-Doping Agency for not providing information about the tests' reliability and protocol; other NFL news noted. MORE

Aug. 25, 2011

Negotiations between NFL and players union over testing for human growth hormone remain stalled. MORE

Aug. 20, 2011

NFL players union says it has yet to agree to league's implementation of screening for human growth hormone, despite league's announcement of such testing. MORE

Aug. 19, 2011

Colorado Rockies Class AAA first baseman Mike Jacobs is suspended for 50 games and released by organization after becoming first MLB player to test positive for human growth hormone. MORE

Aug. 7, 2011

NFL defends the integrity of its new drug-testing program, under which all players will be tested for human growth hormone at least once a year, and possibly many more times. MORE

Aug. 6, 2011

Some antidoping experts say that the true effectiveness and legitimacy of the National Football League’s human growth hormone testing program will be known only when the league and the players’ union reveal the details. MORE

Aug. 5, 2011

NFL owners and players officially put new 10-year labor deal in place, including testing for human growth hormone starting this season. MORE

Aug. 3, 2011

Provision for testing NFL players for use of Human Growth Hormone is likely to be included in new labor contract. MORE

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